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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:36:37 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: /proc/self/exename -> exe ? (Re: Retrieving name of executable)
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On Mar 28 23:36, Anthony Heading wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:35:28PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:39:23AM -0800, Earl Chew wrote:
> > >I think the name of the current executable is stored in myself->progname
> > >within cygwin1.dll.
> > >
> > >The more easily accessible __progname returns the basename of the
> > >executable.
> > >
> > >Is there a way for an application to obtain myself->program, other
> > >than resorting to raw win32 call to GetModuleFileName()?
> > 
> > argv[0] or __argv[0] or /proc/self/exename
> 
> Has this link been renamed?  It appears to have changed to
> /proc/self/exe now, which has broken a lot of my programs...

The old exename was a file containing the path, the new exe is a symlink
pointing to the binary.  This is how it's done on Linux.


Corinna

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